Chapter 2. Command Reference

The Menubar

The menubar is at the top of the Konsole window.
If the menubar is hidden,
Show Menu Bar can be reached by
right clicking in the window
(as long as no full screen application is running in that
window such as vi, minicom, etc.). The default shortcut
is listed after each menu item.

Alternatively you can use the shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+M
to show or hide the menubar.

File Menu

File → New Window (Ctrl+Shift+N)

Opens a new separate Konsole window with the default profile

File → New Tab (Ctrl+Shift+T)

Opens a new tab with the default profile

Note

Konsole ships with a default profile.
Any new profiles added by the user will be listed in the submenu.
There will be no submenu if only the default profile is to be shown.

File → Clone Tab

Attempts to clone the current tab in a new tab

File → Save Output As... (Ctrl+Shift+S)

Saves the current scrollback as a text or html
file

File → Print Screen ... (Ctrl+Shift+P)

Print the current screen. By default the output is scaled to fit the size of the paper
being printed on with black text color and no background. In the print dialog these options can be changed on the
Output Options tab.

File → Open File Manager

Opens KDE's file manager
at the current directory. By default, that is
Dolphin.

File → Close Tab (Ctrl+Shift+W)

Closes the current tab

File → Close Window (Ctrl+Shift+Q)

Quits Konsole

Note

Konsole will display a confirmation dialog if there is more than one
tab open. This dialog can be disabled by clicking on the Do not ask again checkbox.

If you want to get the confirmation dialog get back, delete the entry

[Notification Messages]
CloseAllTabs=true

in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/konsolerc.

Edit Menu

Edit → Copy (Ctrl+Shift+C)

Copies the selected text to the clipboard

Edit → Paste (Ctrl+Shift+V)

Pastes text from the clipboard at the cursor
location

Edit → Select All

Selects all the text in current window

Edit → Copy Input To → All Tabs in Current Window

Allows input from the current session to be sent simultaneously to all sessions in current window

Edit → Copy Input To → Select Tabs... (Ctrl+Shift+.)

Allows input from the current session to be sent simultaneously to sessions picked by user

Edit → Copy Input To → None (Ctrl+Shift+/)

Stop sending input from current session into other sessions

Edit → Send Signal

Send the specified signal to the shell
process, or other process, that was launched when the new session was
started.

Currently available signals are:

STOP

to stop process

CONT

continue if stopped

HUP

hangup detected on controlling terminal, or death of controlling
process

INT

interrupt from keyboard

TERM

termination signal

KILL

kill signal

USR1

user signal 1

USR2

user signal 2

Refer to your system manual pages for further details by giving the
command man7
signal.

Edit → Rename Tab... (Ctrl+Alt+S)

Opens a dialog box allowing you to change
the name of the current tab
(more info)

Edit → ZModem Upload... (Ctrl+Alt+U)

Opens up a dialog to select a file to be uploaded if the required software is installed

Edit → Find... (Ctrl+Shift+F)

Opens a search bar at the bottom of Konsole's window

This allows for case sensitive, forward or backwards, and regular expressions searches.

Edit → Find
Next (F3)

Moves to the next search instance
. If the search bar has the focus, you can use the shortcut Enter as well.

Edit → Find
Previous (Shift+F3)

Moves to the previous search instance
. If the search bar has the focus, you can use the shortcut Shift+Enter as well.

View Menu

View → Split View → Split
View Left/Right (Ctrl+()

Splits all the tabs into left and right views

Any output on one view is duplicated in the other view.

View → Split View → Split
View Top/Bottom (Ctrl+))

Splits all the tabs into top and bottom views

Any output on one view is duplicated in the other view.

View → Split View → Close Active (Ctrl+Shift+S)

Closes the current view

View → Split View → Close Others (Ctrl+Shift+O)

Closes all non-current views

View → Split View → Expand View (Ctrl+Shift+])

Makes the current view larger

View → Split View → Shrink View (Ctrl+Shift+[)

Makes the current view smaller

View → Detach Current Tab (Ctrl+Shift+H)

Opens the current tab in a
separate window

Quiting the previous Konsole window will not
affect the newly created window.

View → Monitor for
Silence (Ctrl+Shift+I)

Toggles the monitoring of the current tab for
lack of activity

By default, after 10 seconds of inactivity, an info icon will appear on
the session's tab.
The type of alerts can be changed through
Settings → Configure Notifications → Silence in monitored session.

View → Monitor for
Activity (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Toggles the monitoring of the current tab for
activity

Upon any activity, an info icon will appear on the session's tab.
The type of alerts can be changed through
Settings → Configure Notifications → Activity in monitored session.

View → Enlarge Font (Ctrl++)

Increases the text font size

View → Shrink Font (Ctrl+-)

Decreases the text font size

View → Set Encoding

Sets the character encoding

View → Clear Scrollback

Clears the text in the scrollback

View → Clear
Scrollback and Reset (Ctrl+Shift+K)

Clears the text in the current tab and scrollback
and resets the terminal

Bookmarks Menu

Bookmarks → Add Bookmark (Ctrl+Shift+B)

Adds the current location

Bookmarks → Bookmark Tabs as Folder...

Adds all tabs to a bookmark folder

A dialog will open for the bookmark folder name.

Bookmarks → New Bookmark Folder...

Adds a new folder to the bookmark list

A dialog will open for the bookmark folder name.

Bookmarks → Edit Bookmarks

Opens the bookmark editor

Note

You can use the bookmark editor to manually add URLs.
Currently, Konsole accepts the following:

ssh://user@host:port

telnet://user@host:port

Settings Menu

Settings → Edit
Current Profile...

Opens a dialog to configure current profile

Settings → Switch Profile

Switch current profile to a listed profile

Settings → Manage
Profiles...

Opens a editor for managing profiles

Settings → Show
Menu Bar (Ctrl+Shift+M)

Toggles the menubar being visible

Settings → Full Screen Mode (F11)

Toggles Konsole filling the entire screen

Settings → Configure
Shortcuts...

Opens the keyboard shortcut editor. More on shortcuts configuration
can be found in the KDE Fundamentals.

Additionally Konsole has a few special shortcuts with no corresponding menu item:

Shortcut

Description

Shift+Right

Next Tab

Shift+Left

Previous Tab

Ctrl+Shift+Left

Move Tab Left

Ctrl+Shift+Right

Move Tab Right

Ctrl+Shift+Ins

Paste Selection

Shift+Tab

Next View Container

Settings → Configure
Notifications...

Opens the notifications editor

Settings → Configure
Konsole...

Opens the Konsole settings editor

This dialog has options influencing the appearance and behaviour of the
TabBar and general options for the Konsole window.

Help Menu

Konsole has the some of the common KDEHelp
menu items, for more information read the section about the Help Menu
of the KDE Fundamentals.